Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromore South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromore South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.08651, -8.67982
- SMR number
- CO041-078001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle SSW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; interior (diam. c. 42m) defined as hachured scarp N->SSW and by broken line elsewhere on 1938 OS 6-inch map, with outer bank hachured W->S. Levelled; circular area (34m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by low rise (ext. H 0.5m) survives, with faint trace of fosse as external depression; no visible surface trace of outer bank shown on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 605-6) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd) on C. O'Flynn's land, with 'about five-sixths of circuit levelled'. According to local information, remainder levelled c. 1966. Souterrain (CO041-07802-) in interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.